cbjensen

thank you all for your responses. it is extremely helpfull. Just had a meeting with my studio members recapping the mothers day sale and planning a sale for the holidays. I brought up, and was pleased to bring up the information you have offered and I think they all understand what needs to happen moving forwards. They have all accepted that they will receive 1099 and I have told them they need to document material and expenses involved in producing what they sell. But that is their problem. 
In terms of commission. So my studio is almost self funded, rent, firing fees etc. But the area where we are having our sales is not included in that calculation, It is actually a space I hope to rent out for workshops. This initial go around I did not charge anything except for $50 from each potter and that was all spent on flyers, street signs, vine, cheese, ballons, other advertising etc. It was enough to cover the basic costs. And I did deduct the fees from square. So moving forward I think it would be fair to say charge the initial fee and the 10% of what any potter sells beyond say $150. No one sold below that by the way. Someone said that a percentage penalized those who sold more. I am not sure I see it that way, we are a community of potters and for some I think they would rather take a low participation fee and hope for the best. If I was to take a realistic fee for the space I would have to charge a month rent which would be $1000 plus expenses which would be a fee of $150 per participant. But I am doing all the work and I would love for my studio to see some upside from a succesfull sale. Is that wrong? I